Vol 2 Chapter 1084: Queen Empress Style

Because of the lack of response to the spray article on the Academy News, only a small storm was set off.
When everyone almost forgot about it, a blockbuster news turned out.
Major newspapers published the same announcement on the same day.
The main content of the announcement is to first establish the Shaofu Grain Bank to stabilize grain prices in the world.
Secondly, the Shaofu Food Bank accepted shares to be subscribed by the general public. The subscription conditions are 1,100 mu per share.
When the news came out, the public was in an uproar.
"One hundred acres per share, the price is very expensive."
"Is the Shao Mansion stealing money?"
"This matter doesn't have my share of waiting for the minions, just watch the excitement."
"Does the Shaofu despise me and wait for Xiaomin? One thousand and one hundred acres per share, grab the money!"
"Fool, don't you understand. The Shaofu Food Company is for the big landlords. Those big landlords are reluctant to sell the land in their hands. If they can replace the shares in the Shaofu Food Company, they will get dividends every year. Many people responded."
"The court's method is really one set after another. Before the quarrel was over, the scholars said that the court was going to cut everyone's way. What happened? When everyone's quarrel became red, the court made an announcement to buy a stake in the Shaofu Food Bank. Now that’s all right, who would dare to say that the court is cutting everyone’s way."
"It's all gone, it's all gone. This matter has nothing to do with our little people."
"That's true, let's just watch the fun."
"It's boring!"
"I really miss the days when Universal Transportation issued shares. Fortunately, I grabbed five shares and paid dividends every year."
"I also grabbed three shares."
"I also grabbed two shares."
"Why didn't the imperial court consider me and other people, give us a chance, and let us invest in the Shaofu Food Bank."
"Dream it! The ten-tax one-for-one discount is given to you, and you still want to buy a stake in the Shaofu Food Company, which is so beautiful for you."
"The Shaofu Food Shop, anyone with eyes can see that it is specially prepared for the big landlords, and it's nothing to us."
"It's gone, it's gone!"
"Big news, big news. The big news that I just got. The first batch of people who subscribed for shares was a thousand acres, and they were all robbed by court officials and royal family members. For this second batch, the price will increase. It has risen to 1,100 mu per share. The first group of people who subscribed for the shares made a lot of money."
"Really?"
"It's true that the brother-in-law of the cousin's cousin's daughter-in-law's brother-in-law is working under the roots of the imperial city. It can't be wrong."
"In that case, the share price of Shaofu Food Bank has to rise."
"When the third batch of subscription comes, it will definitely increase."
"Guess, are the old wealthy landlords willing to exchange the land for shares?"
"Those rich people, it is estimated, maybe, will replace part of it. Those rich in the countryside are conservative and hesitant. Maybe they have not made up their minds until the second batch of subscriptions are completed. When the third batch of price increases, then they should regret it. Up."
"This trick is really high!"
"It's really high!"
"It's no wonder that the college reported insider trading before, and other newspapers didn't move at all. Dare to get the news long ago."
"The college newspaper is correct, the first batch is insider trading."
"It's too much. It's a hundred acres in a sudden increase."
"You don't have one thousand and one hundred acres of land. What are you worrying about. No big landlord is too expensive. You dislike it."
"makes sense."
Big Landlord: Who said I was not too expensive? One share will add a hundred mu, and ten shares will add a thousand mu.
This is the money grab mode!
Huh huh!
...
Yan Ci was very fortunate. He was cheeky and asked for a quota from Huang Qubing and replaced four shares at the price of one thousand mu.
Wang Xuecheng was happy for him, "Brother Yan still has a foresight, and he made 400 acres in one go."
"What you earn, I will pass this share to my children and grandchildren, and I will never transfer it."
Wang Xuecheng laughed, "If I have a thousand acres of land, I will also exchange shares. Unfortunately I don't have one."
He has worked for so many years, except for saving two houses, he has also saved a hundred and eight taels of silver. The land under the name, a family of five people, adds up to 20 to 30 mu, and they are still in their hometown. Far from reaching the limit of 150 acres for scholars.
Yan Ci said to him: "I estimate that the price of land will fluctuate over time. If Brother Wang has spare money, he might as well sell a few mu. Anyway, you are far from the upper limit."
Wang Xuecheng shook his head and sighed, "I'm a talented person, so I can cute three people. The eldest brother and the second brother came to see me separately, hoping that I could give them a place. The daughter-in-law quarreled with me, saying that I dared to give up the place, so she brought it. Take the child back to my natal home. I am so worried now. I am worried about the number of places, but also worried about the number of places."
"It's just 50 mu more than the upper limit of 100 mu, they are also rushing to ask for it?"
"Even if it is just one acre more than the upper limit, they will rush to ask me for a quota."
"What's Brother Wang going to do?"
"I'm worried."
"You three brothers have split up a long time ago. You can totally refuse your eldest and second elder brother's request and not give them a place. Brother Wang, it's not that I said you, you are sometimes too weak. You have to think for the children. For your three children, all three places happen to be given to them."
Yan Ci made suggestions for Wang Xuecheng.
Wang Xuecheng looked sad, "I can't save face."
Tsk and tut, "Face is not important. Brother Wang, don't do things that make your wife and children hate you."
This remark was like a heavy hammer, beating in Wang Xuecheng's heart.
He suddenly woke up, "Brother Yan is right. The children are still young and have no idea. When they grow up, they will hate me when they know what happened."
He drank the glass of wine in one sip, "Thank you brother Yan for reminding. After I returned, I wrote a letter to reject the eldest brother and the second brother. Since the family has been separated, there is no reason to give them the quota."
"Brother Wang should have been like this!"
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Shanhe College.
Sanyuangong Yang Yuanqing played chess with Zhou Shian.
Sun Zhuangyuan flew solo and became the head of the Zhixing Academy.
However, small groups of three still exist.
Today, Sun Zhuangyuan rushed to Shanhe Academy to play chess and enjoy tea.
Zhou Shian asked him: "Brother Sun is not busy?"
"Naturally not busy."
Zhou Shi'an raised his eyebrows slightly, "It's all going up in the sky outside. Your Sun family is one of the few big landlords in the world. Can you not be busy?"
Sun Zhuangyuan looked cheerful, "Your Zhou family, but a big family with the same name as the Sun family. Why don't you see Brother Zhou busy?"
"The Zhou family is the Zhou family, and I am me, so you can't confuse it." Zhou Shian was not happy.
He tried hard to get rid of the family, but everyone inevitably linked him to the family.
As long as his surname is Zhou, in the eyes of the world, he is Zhou's family.
Sanyuan Gong Yang Yuanqing saw that Zhou Shian was unhappy, so he said: "The Queen Empress is a rare Go master in the world, foresight, one set after another, everyone has followed her routine."
Zhou Shian held Baizi without raising his head, only staring at the chessboard. He said: "The outside is talking about how the emperor and the empress are, how to get to Brother Yang, all of them are the empress’s credit."
Sanyuangong repeatedly denied, "No, no, it can't be counted as credit. It can only be said that this is a chess game that looks at the overall situation in the next hundred years. Such a big hand is in line with the queen's habit of doing things. If you don't plan, you can do it. Ten years, a hundred years. Your Majesty’s working habits are different from those of the Queen’s Empress. Your Majesty prefers real swords and guns, straight and straight, focusing on the present. This kind of winding strategy, at first glance, is the Queen’s empress’s. style."
Sun Zhuangyuan nodded repeatedly, agreeing with San Yuan Gong's statement.
He had talked to the empress and she was indeed a difficult master.
This time the implementation of the new land law, at the very beginning, everyone thought it was impossible to succeed, and it would definitely be criticized by the world, and it was opposed by all the gentry and royal family members.
It would be a failure to be an emperor to promote this, and there will be no exceptions.
However, this matter turned around the Empress Empress, and it was completely another situation.
Who could have imagined that with a three-year buffer period, a small government-owned grain trade, overseas purchases, and a combination of punches, there is a vague possibility of success.
Zhou Shian looked at Sun Zhuangyuan, "Brother Sun agrees to the new law?"
Sun Zhuangyuan smiled bitterly: "I agree or disagree, does it matter? This is the general trend and cannot be violated."
Zhou Shian said: "I don't believe that Brother Sun did not see the true meaning of the new law."
Sun Zhuangyuan remained silent. Of course, he saw the true intention of Empress Empress's combination boxing.
Zhou Shian didn't wait for Sun Zhuangyuan to answer him, and said to himself, "The implementation of the new law, coupled with the implementation of the slave law, is basically intended to limit the scale and influence of the wealthy family. I think many people have not noticed. , There is one of the new laws. If there are two fame in the family, it is calculated according to one fame. There is a similar rule in the slave law, and the number of slaves is calculated by one fame. What does it mean? This is not to force the family to separate.
For example, in the three rooms of your Sun family, there are many people with fame and fame. If there is no separation of families, only a dozen people will be cute if they are calculated based on one fame. However, there are two or three hundred people in the three rooms of your grandson family, and a dozen places are definitely not enough. How to do?
The only way to maximize profits and own more land with ten taxes and one tax is to separate families. Separate all the brothers, sons, and nephews, and one family has one fame, and the benefits can be maximized. Forcing the family to separate, this is the real intention of the empress. "
Sanyuangong nodded again and again, "Brother Zhou's remarks hit the nail on the head. At the beginning, the empress's empress used tricks to force Brother Sun to divide the clan and break away from the sect. The old man anticipated that there would be greater movement in the future.
The queen empress does one thing, never simply does one thing. After one thing, there must be a series of plans. The branch of the Sun family is regarded as a pathfinder for the empress. In addition, Yang Ji has laid a large area in the south, Chen Zhuangshi in the north has also grown up, and Jing Daying is firmly in the hands of his majesty. The royal family members were also controlled.
When the conditions were met, Empress Empress took advantage of the situation to launch her big plan to suppress and restrict the family. The aristocratic family can either follow the trend, separate their families and seek the best interests, or they can only resist to the end and bear high tax rates.
With Shaofu and Jinwuwei, plus the Ministry of Internal Affairs, these three yamen are coming so fiercely that the Ministry of Households is completely incomparable. Once the Shao Mansion was dispatched, it began to survey the land area and collect grain taxes. Look at it, it will take a while. However, with the second batch of shares subscribed by Shaofu Food Bank, the stock price has risen directly by 100 acres. It is estimated that it will not make a noise in the end, at least not to the point where the world is full of smoke. "
Zhou Shian looked at Sun Zhuangyuan, "What do you think of Brother Sun?"
Sun Zhuangyuan stroked his beard, "Recently, the academy’s students and the people are worried about land taxation. In the past, as long as you get fame and fame, you can get tax-free and exempt from labor. Enjoy tax exemption again.
Most scholars are full of resentment, clamoring that they don't want to study, it is better to go home and farm. However, yelling home yelling, the new law has been promulgated for a month, so far no student has dropped out. "
Sanyuangong went on to say: "No one from Shanhe Academy has dropped out. Many people even support the new law, thinking that the people's livelihood problem is fundamentally solved."
Sun Zhuangyuan continued: "According to the old man's understanding, no one has dropped out of the Imperial College, the Military Academy, or the local academy. This actually explains the problem."
Sanyuan Gong nodded, "Reading is still the best choice. Even if tax exemption is not available, as long as you have fame, you can protect your family and you can justify owning more land. If you become an official, you can buy and sell more land. The old man still gets it. The news is that the court intends to increase the salary of officials."
"really?"
Sanyuangong laughed, "It should be true. It's about land taxation. For such a big matter, the court officials didn't even cause trouble. Are the two of them not curious about the reason? The old man thought, there is only the Shaofu Food Bank. I’m afraid that the shares in overseas property purchases are not enough to shut up court officials.